On 02/29/08 14:29, Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> On 02/29/08 01:04, Tobi wrote:
>> Hello,
>>>> DrawText() in font.c uses the method Glyph() which may return a null pointer,
>> but doesn't check the returned pointer.
>>>> I came across this bug, when checking a bug report from Sven Mueller:
>>>>http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467512>>>> When info.vdr contains an invalid character (like in the above example a 0xA0 -
>> a Latin-1 NO-BREAK SPACE), Glyph() returns null, which then causes a segfault
>> when dereferencing the null-pointer.
>>>> The easiest way to fix this, would probably be to ignore such invalid
>> characters, which is, what the attached two-line-patch will do. But maybe it's
>> better to replace such characters with a default character - maybe a space or a '?'.
>> I also think showing some replacement character is best.
>> Can you please verify if the attached patch does this correctly?
>> If this works, I'd like to include it in version 1.6.0.
Maybe the attached version is even better, because there are also other
places where Glyph() is called.
Klaus
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